Seawatch report - Pete
0525-1130 with Mark Prestwood; in unless stated:
Kittiwake - 147 in 15 flocks- many high flying and some could have been missed
Red throated Diver - perhaps the same three sp seen close inshore on three occasions
Arctic skua 1, 2, 1 then one got off sea and chased terns (2LM, 3 DM)
Sandwich tern at least 50
Arctic Tern - single and flock of 30
Little Tern - one
Black Tern - one
Gannet - c35
Aythya spp prob Tufted distant flock of three
Common Scoter - just 40
Fulmar - 2 (first record since May 2022)
Little Gull - 1st summer
Bottle-nosed Dolphin - 4-5 chasing ?tuna
Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)
Grasshopper warbler reeling in central marsh
Lots of Silver Y
A bugs eye view of a Silver Y |
Male Small White |
Common Buzzard |
Grey Heron |
First Orchids flowering |
Heysham Head (Edward Wilkinson)
Linnet |
Goldfinch feeding newly fledged young |
Greenfinch |
Wren |
Common Whitethroat |
Lesser Whitethroat |
Little Egret |
Eider |
Not the same fresh faced fox photographed by Janet yesterday |
Heysham skear - low water 13:40 (Malcolm)
Just a quick check, it doesn't take long on these neap tides.
Eider 109 - this female surrounded by 13 males, you can just about hear them calling.
Great Crested Grebe 5
Little Egret 2
Oystercatcher 800
Bar-Tailed Godwit 12
Bar-Tailed Godwit |
Knot - there were only 2 on the skear as I walked around. Then as the tide was coming in a flock of 44 arrived, gained hight and headed off to the NW.
Lesser Black-Backed gull with one of the original solitary Knot |
Knot gaining height before flying off |
Just a nice shot looking north from the skear. Cormorant and Eider in the foreground with the South Lakes in the background. Can't imagine why I like being out here! |